Mexico: Achiote, another alternative to boost the economy of families in the Yucatan countryside

GOVERNMENT OF YUCATÁN PRESS ROOM. Its commercialization, mainly for the food, pharmaceutical, textile and cosmetic industries, will improve the quality of life of producers. Merida Yucatan. As one more alternative to improve and reactivate the economy of the families of the Yucatecan countryside, the government of Mauricio Vila Dosal promotes the cultivation of more than 300 thousand achiote plants, which after their commercialization, mainly for the food, pharmaceutical, textile industries and cosmetics, will improve the quality of life of producers throughout the State. The head of the Rural Development Secretariat (Seder), Jorge Díaz Loeza, explained that, as part of the start of this new scheme, in which five million pesos are invested, and that he will be coordinating together with municipal presidents and workers in the field , the distribution of more than 100,000 specimens of this species has already begun, in various demarcations of the entity. Similarly, the official ...